System of motor control.



S. H. KEEFER, DECD.

M. A. KEEPER ADMINISTRATRIX.

SYSTEM OF MOTOR CONTROL.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 17, 1913.

1,156,484. Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

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BY HE T E ATTORNEYS 2 E 2 co :IINVEIVTUR S. H. KEEFER, DECDx M. A. KEEFER ADMINISTRATRIX. SYSTEM OF MOTOR CONTROL APPLICATION FILED MAR 17, 1913.

' Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL H. KEEFER, DECEASED, LATE O F PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, BY MAE A.

KEEFER, ADMINISTRA'IRIX, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T0 NILES- 'BEMENT-POND COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

Application filed March 17, 1913.

The objects of the invention are, to provide a portable device of simple construction for stopping the motor at any time from any part of the apparatus; to provide an inexpensive, simple and durable switch adapted to make one or another of several sets of connections and substantially safe against an accidental shifting of its movable member from any cause whatever; to provide means whereby the reversing, accelerating and decelerating of a motor may be readily, effectively and reliably controlled from a portable switch to the exclusion, for the time being, of the means normally controlling these operations; and to apply to a system automatically braking and reversing a motor, a switching device which may be carried to any part of the machine and there manipulated to control the operation of the entire system.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the .features of construction, combinations of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the following claims.

In the accompanying drawings. in which are illustrated one or more of various possible embodiments of the several features of the invention. Figure 1 is a wiring diagram. of a. system of motor control operating in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is an elevation, partly in section, of a preferred form of pendantor master switch; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view onlthe line 33, Fig. 2.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 754,753.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

Referring now to Fig. 1 of the drawings, there is represented a motor comprising the armature 1, shunt field winding 2 and-,inter- .pole winding 3, the connections of these sew eral parts being made or broken in various ways by means of the service controller hereinafter described in detail. For controlling the several operations of the motor, there is provided a body of resistance 4 adapted to be inserted at times in series with the current through the armature 1, and two sections of resistance 5, 5, through which, at predetermined times, the current to the shunt field winding 2 flows, as well as two banks of resistance 6, 7 which, unlike the resistance 5, cannot be varied other than to be cut into or out of circuit with the motor field 2 by means hereafter specified. For.

governing the amount of resistance 5, 5 in circuit with the shunt field, there are provided two pivoted or otherwise movable contact devices 8, 9, of any suitable construction.

Coming now to the service controller, which makes and breaks, at the proper times, the several connections between the parts enumerated above, there are provided four solenoid switching devices 10, 11, 12 and 13, the first of which comprises a winding 14, a movable core 15. a lower contact 16 engaged by said core when the winding 1c is deenergized, and an upper contact 17 so located as to be engaged by the core 15 when said winding 1 1 is energized. In addition, the lower contact 16 is so supported by any suitable means that when engaged by the core 15, it is forced into engagement with an auxiliary contact 18, from which, however, the lower contact 16 'frees itself when the core 15 rises. Similarly the second switch 11 comprises a winding 19, a core 20, a lower contact 21 engaged by said iCOIG when it is in its lowered position, and an upper contact 22 electrically connectedwith the core when the winding 19 is energized so as to lift the core from the position illustratedin the drawings.v A third switch 12 has a winding 23, a core 24, a lower contact 25, and an upper contact 26 all designed to coiiperate as described in connection with the first switch 11. It is, however, to be noted that the two cores 20 and 24 have, at their lower ends, contacts, respectively indicated at 27 and 28, which engage the lower contacts 21 and 25, while being insulated from the respective cores which carry them. The fourth switch 13, like the first switch 10, has a winding 29, a core 30, a lower contact 31, an upper contact 32, and an aux iliary lower contact 33, the arrangement being such that the core 30 in its lower position not only engages the contact 31, but causes the latter to engage at that time the auxiliary contact 33. When the core 30 is raised the auxiliary contact 33 is disengaged from the lower contact 31 by suitable mechanism corresponding to that used in connection with the first switch 10. The first and second switches 10 and 11 have in common a blowout magnet comprising a winding 34 and a fixed core 35 so placed as to extinguish any are forming between the upper or lower sets of contacts of these two switches. Similarly the third and fourth switches 12 and 13 have a common blow-out magnet comprising a fixed core 36, and a winding 37 likewise placed to extinguish arcsformed at any of the contacts of the switches 12 and 13. Movably mounted, adjacent and partly within the lower end of the fixed core 35 of the first blow-out magnet is a contact 38 adapted to coiiperate in its lowered position with a fixed contact 39, there being a body of magnetic material connected to the movable contact 38 in such a way that when the winding 34 is sufficiently energized the contact 38 is drawn upward out of engagement with the fixed contact 39. Similarly the blow-out magnet core 36 has movable within it at its lower end, a body'of magnetic material carrying a contact 40 normally engaging a fixed contact 41, but drawn upward away from the latter whenever the winding 37 of said magnet is sufficiently energized. It will be noted that the winding 19 of the second switch 11 has in series with it a body of resistance 42, and thatthe series circuit containing the winding 19 and the resistance 42 is connected in parallel with the winding 23 of the third switch 12. 1

For controlling the operation of the four automatic switches heretofore described, there is provided a suitable pilot switch 43 and a master switch 44, of which the first preferably comprises a rotatable drum 45 carrying two elongated contacts 46 and 47. Of these the contact 47 is designed to connect together either the contacts 48 and 49, or two other contacts 50 and 51, while the second elongated contact 46 is capable of connecting together either the two contacts 50 and 51 or the contacts 52 and 53. The.

embodiment of the invention, a pipe or cylinder 54, preferably of metal and lined with insulating material 55 and having mounted concentrically within it a tube 56, also of insulating material and spaced away from the inner wall of said cylinder as indicated in Fig. 2. One end of the cylindrical casing 54 has an outlet 57 curved to prevent injury to a cable (not shown) nade up of the electrical conductors entering the same, and its opposite end is provided with a head 58 through which passes a longitudinally movable and rotatable rod 59, preferably of in sulating material and having an operating handle 60 of suitable shape. The inner end 61 of this rod 59 is guided in a suitably formed recess 62 in a plug or head 63 in that end of the tube 56 adjacent the outlet 57,

and itcarries two contacts 64 and 65, the first of which is preferably in the form of a ring so placed as to be capable ofelectrically connecting two relatively fixed contacts 66 and 67 when the rod 59 is in its outer position. These two contacts 66 and 67, as well as three other pairs of contacts 68, 69, 70, 71, 72 and 73, project through the walls of the insulating tube 56 and extend for a suitable distance inside of the tube. The contact 65 comprises a ring portion 74 so located as to be capable of electrically connecting the fixed contacts 68 and 69 at the same time that the first ring64 connects the contacts 66 and 67 and it also has a portion 75 extending longitudinally of the rod 59 so as to be capable of engaging with and electrically connecting either the contacts 71 and 73 or the contacts 70 and 72 when the rod 59'is pushed inwardly to a sufiicient extent to its neutral or open-circuit position and is then rotated one way or the other through an angle of about 90. F 01' the purpose of guiding and limiting the movement of the rod '59, it is provided with a projecting pin 76 designed to slide within a slot 77 in a head 78 in that end of the tube 56 adjacent the head 58'; the slot 77 comprising a longitudinal portion 79 and two portions 80, 81 extending in opposite directions from the inner end of the longitudinal portion 79 for about one-fourth the way around the head 78, wherebyit is possible to turn the rod 59 through an angle of 90 either way from the neutral position, or to move the rod 59 longitudinally outward from said position, the respective paths of movement being guided and limited by the respective portions 80, 81, 79 of the slot 77.

Current from any suitable source of supply is delivered to the above-described system of apparatus through a pair of mains 82 and 83, Fig. 1, connected to a manually or automatically operated circuit-breaking device, illustrated conventionally at 8,4, and across the mains 82 and 83 on the motor side of the circuit-breaking device 84 is preferi-icco ngly, the sequence of operations occurring when the pilot switch 13 and the master witch 44; are in various combinations of positions will be next considered.

Assuming that the pilot switch 13 has its movable member :5 so turned that the elongated contact 46 thereon connects the con tacts 50 and 51 and the elongated contact 47 similarly connects the contacts 48 and 19,

currentwill flow from the supply conductor 32 to the contact 68016 the master switch it, through the contacts 65 and 69 thereof, thence through the contacts 4:9, 452', 48 of the pilot switch 13, winding 1.4: of the first switch 10, and thence to the second supply main 83. It will be noted that previous to the operation of the pilot switch 13 from its neutral or open-circuit position, illustrated Fig. 1, the closure of the circuit-breaking device 84; permits the shunt field winding 2 of the motor to be energized, since current fiows from the supply main 32 to said field winding 2, thence through'contacts 28, 25 of the switch 12 and thence to the second supply main 83. I As a result of the energization of the first switch winding 14, the core 15 rises into engagement with the upper contact 17 and the motor starts by virtue of the current which flowsfrom the supply main 82 to the upper contact 17 and core 15 of the first switch, thence through all of the series armature resistance 4, interpole winding 3, motor armature 1, core 30 of the fourth switch 13, lower contacts 31 and 33, winding 3-1 of the blow-out magnet adjacent the first and second. switches and 11, and thence to the second current supply main 83.

ac rising of the core or": the first witch 10 permits current to How from the upply main 32through the upper contact 1? and core 15 of the first switch 10, to the windings 19 and 23 of the second and. third switches 11 and 12, respectively, which windings, as before noted, are connected in parallei, and from these windings the current then flows through the pilot-switch contacts 50, 46 and 51, thence though the master switch contacts 67, 641 and 66, to the core of the fourth switch 13, lower conta'cts 31 and 33 thereof, blow-out winding 34 and so to the second supply main 83. As a consequence, the core 24 0f the third switch 19) rises and shortly thereafter the core 20 of the second switch 11 is likewise drawn up into engagement with its upper contact 22, the difference in the time of action of these two switches being due to the retarding effeet or" the body of resistance 12 in series with the winding 19 of the second switch 11.

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of the field resistance 5, so that even before the first half of the armature resistance 4: is cut out, the motor is speedcd up by the weakening of its shunt field. After this first half of the armature resistance 4 has been shortcircuited, the rising of the core 20 of the second switch 11 by removing the last part of the armature resistance ii: permits the direct connection of the motor armature 1 across the mains 32, 83. so that by the above-do scribed series of operations the motor is gradually accelerated to full speed.

The moving of the member of the pilot switch to its oil position and then to its reversing position, in the first instance causes the sl'iort-circuiting of the motor armature and the so-called dynamic braking of the motor, and after the motor speed has decreased to the desired extent, the motor is automatically started in the reverse direction, as may be noted by tracing the various circuits. H, on the other hand, while the movable member 45 of the pilot switch +13 is in its ofi position (shown in Fig. 1) the movable member 59 of the master switch 4% be pushed inwardly from its outer position (shown in Fig. 1), the electrical connection between the contacts 66 and 67 as well as between the contacts 68 and 69 is broken. if the rod 59 be then rotated through an angle of 90, the elongated portion 75 of the movable contact will be brought into engagement withthe fixed contacts 71. and 73, for example, with the result that current will flow from the supply main 82 to said fixed contact 71, thence through the elongated contact 75 and fixed contact 73, through the winding 14 of the first switch 10, to the second supply main 83. As a consequence, the core 15 is moved to its upper position of engagement with the upper contact 17 and current flows through the motor armature 1 as above described, although in this case there is no speeding up of the motor by reason of the cutting out of the armature resistance 4 because the circuit including the windings 19 and 23 of the accelerating switches 11 and 12 is open at the contacts 66, 67 of the pilot switch It is thus possible to cause the motor to turn at its lowest speed independently of the pilot switch 43 by the above-o'cscribed manipulation of the operating handle of the master switch 1 1, and if said handle be so turned that the elongated movable contact 74 connects the two fixed contacts 70 and 72 instead of the two fixed contacts 71 and 73, then the winding 29 of the fourth switch 13 instead of the windin 14 of the first switch 10 is energized, and. current is supplied to the motor armature in a direction the reverse of that previously noted,

thus causing a reversal of the direction of rotation of the motor. As before, however, the motor is necessarily operated only at its lowest speed, as the solenoids 19 and 28 of the accelerating switches 11 and 12 are opencircuited at 66, 67, as in the previous case.

It will be noted that the pilot switch 43 cannot cause the operation of the apparatus while the operating member 59 of the master switch 44 is in its inner or open-circuit position, for the reason that two of the cir cuits controlling the reversing and accelerating switches, which pass through said pilot switch, are broken at the contacts 66, 67 and 68, 69 in the master switch.

If, while the apparatus is operating with the pilot switch 43 in either of its two on positions, the movable member 59 of the master switch 44 be pushed inwardly, the actuating current is cut oil from the service controller, whose cores at once drop, thus causing the motor to be quickly brought to a stop by virtue of the dynamic current flowing through the short-circuited armature 1.

The above-described arrangement of apparatus is particularly adaptedfor use with machine tools, such as planers, and when so used the pilot switch 43 would be manipulated by hand or automatically to cause the rotation of the motor first in one direction and then in the other, suitable mechanical connections being provided between the motor and the reciprocating table of the planer it so that the rotation oi. the motor in the two directions causes the reciprocation of the table. The master switch 44 is peculiarly well adapted to hang as a pendant at any desired part of the apparatus and to be carried at will by an operator to any part of the machine and there manipulated to stop the motor or to run it slowly in either direction regardless of the position in which the pilot switch 43 happens to be.

It will thus be clear that the several objects of the invention are secured and other advantageous ends attained.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative'and not in guage used in the following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention, which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

1. Apparatus of the character described comprising, in combination, a motor, automatic means comprising devices for controlling the direction of rotation of said motor, and other devices for controlling the ac-' celeration of said motor, means for govern-' adapted to energize said first means to rotate the motor in either direction at one of said speeds, and means adapted to energize said first means to rotate the motor in either direction at another speed and to render the said first means inoperative.

3. Apparatus of the character described comprising, in combination, a motor, a pilot switch, a switching device controlled thereby forstarting and accelerating the motor, and a master switch for starting or stopping the motor independently of the pilot .switch, a circuit of the pilot switch extending through the master switch so as to be broken when said master switch is operated.

4. Apparatus of the character described comprising, in combination, a motor, a pilot switch, switching devices governed thereby for controlling the starting and accelerating of the motor respectively, and a master switch adapted to cause operation of the starting device independently of the pilot switch without permitting operation of the dependently of the pilot switch, the controlling circuit of the accelerating device passing through the pilot switch and the master switch and being broken by operation of said master switch.

6. Apparatus of the character described comprising, in combination, a motor, a pilot and a master switch connected to govern the starting switch independently of the pilot switch, the controlling circuits of the startng switch and of the accelerating'switch not passing through the master switch so as robe broken when said latter switch is -opera-ted to cause operation ofthe starting switch.

8. Apparatus of the character described comprising, in combination, a motor, a pilot switch, va reversing switch and an accelerating switch both governed by the pilot switch, and a master switch connected to govern the reversing switch independently of the pilot switch, the controlling circuits of the reversing switch and of the accelerating switch both passing through the master switch so as to be broken when said latter switch is operated to cause operation of the reversing switch.

In witness whereof, I the said "MAE A.

KEEPER, administratrix of the estate of SAMUEL H. Knnrnn, deceased, have here unto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MAE A. KEEFER. Witnesses:

GEORGE E. VAN 'DYNE, HELEN L. DAVIS. 

